Automate My Life

The idea was to make my blog-life easier by quickly scripting some code to pull my Google Analytics and Adsense data for me at the end of each day. Easy being the key idea there. Auto-magic. The bane of any Data Scientist’s existence. If you haven’t read Use Python to Automatically get your Google Analytics Report – Part Read more about How to Get Your Google Analytics Report from Python – Part 2[…]

Ever had anyone come into your office and say “You’re a Data Scientist right?”. Depending on the next sentence following that question, a Data Scientist’s heart will either flutter or drop to their toes. #dearDataScientist, I want to make a Big Data platform. DDS: What size data do you have? About 1GB in excel. DDS: Read more about Dear Data Scientist[…]

I admit, I was intensely skeptical that How to Schedule Your Twitter Account Posts and Twitter Auto-Scheduler Reloaded would really bring my site much traffic at all. My objective was Automating My Life to achieve low maintenance blogging for myself and of course high ROI in terms of traffic. There was no way this programming blogger was Read more about SITREP: Does Automating Your Blog Posts Really Work?[…]

I have found a process improvement for my How to Schedule Your Twitter Account Posts code. I thought briefly about it when I was originally coding but wanted to push my work to production first. What I found lacking was that every-time I publish a new post to my blog I have to turn off my code, update Read more about Twitter Auto-Scheduler Reloaded[…]

I was thinking today if my How to Schedule Your Twitter Account Posts code has been providing any ROI (return on investment). I’m happy to announce that it has!! Just not in the monetary sense. I’m slowly growing my traffic and still providing great content. I didn’t just create another TwitterBot but I’ve certainly noticed which Twitter accounts Read more about March SITREP How Is Twitter Auto-Scheduling Doing?[…]

I was wondering today how my SEO looks using the Google search engine. I’m happy to announce that AML has moved up to Page 4!!! Fireworks explode, tiny unicorns dance in the sky as the gray clouds give way to bright blue. No really…it’s exciting! If you also check out Google images, my WordCloud ranked up Read more about AML Gaining Momentum in SEO?[…]

Do People Ever Sleep? Have you ever wondered how businesses stay at the top of your Twitter feed? Yeah, me too. It turns out they don’t actually make those posts everyday. They use a company like Crowdfire to schedule their posts! Who cares how it got there as long as the content is relevant to you Read more about How to Schedule Your Twitter Account Posts[…]

You made it. The last tutorial in the WordCloud series. You’ve witnessed web-crawling in Part 1 and Grumpy Cat’s epic fail with the OpenCV fix in Part 2. Now, all that’s left is creating the final WordCloud. Part 1 – How to Crawl Your Website and Extract Key Words Part 2 – Working with Images using Read more about Part 3 – Creating the WordCloud[…]

Full image ahead. Today we’re continuing the WordCloud Generator. If you haven’t taken a look at the web-crawling portion of our code, I recommend you visit Part 1 – How to Crawl Your Website and Extract Key Words. What is OpenCV? OpenCV is a very powerful image processing library in Python (and other languages). If you Read more about Part 2 – Working with Images Using OpenCV[…]